Hoax+websites

=Hoax websites= This is a page to start your thoughts and chats about hoax websites.


 * Please make sure you have up-to-date antivirus software before visiting any of these sites- and also remember that if it sounds too good then it is!!!!!**

But how do we educate our students about picking a fake or false site.......

What are your strategies for dealing with these sites at hoem and school....

What do you do if a student or adults gives out personal information, or visits an inappropriate site....


 * Basically here I'm looking to see what you would do as a parent or teacher at home and school...**

I have found most times in school that the computer system is so anti evertything that few students are able to get past it (primary students) even the teachers sometimes have problems. With our home system I have installed child friendy internet superviser that seem to work Okay. at this point my children explore items that they are familaer with. As i look further into all aspects being offer with in this module the chance for being caught out is quite real Cheers LG

My kids also tend to visit sites on the home computer where they are familiar too. They are still young and I am often supervising because our computer sits on a table in the loungeroom. As they get older, I hope they will learn about evaluating web sites and I'll guide them as they explore more. Our school also has alot of restrictions or established boundaries however, critical literacy is a worthwhile skill and should be included in the curriculum. I did a search for hoax web sites and found a good selection, including educational sites to teach students about site evaluation: [] (this is a fun interactive presentation that would suit late primary age because it requires good literacy skills.) [] (a very comprehensive selection of documents to support teaching critical literacy to various ages.) [] (another fun interactive presentation for high school students requiring good literacy skills.) [] (more great teaching resources for critical literacy, cyberbullying and cyber safety written by the Canadian Education Department.) [] (this list of hoax sites includes the site that was mentioned in our critical literacy page about the Martin Luther King Jr hate page.)

Regards, Kyla.

HI Kyla - Yes, I've also been looking for good sites on 'hoax detecting' - That Kathy Schrock site (school.discoveryeducation.com) had good printable resources (pdf files), too, for teaching various ages of children how to assess websites. Just getting students to go through the 'check lists' would get them in the habit of actually examining sites. What I've seen is that even Year 9/10 students tend to just click on whatever is at the top of the Google listing. Lance (in postings) referred to the silliness of people creating hoax sites, or bothering to read them, but I must admit I found that some - most, in fact - of the sites we were sent to were actually rather creatively done, and often funny. At least none of them were trying to scam money out of people, as do so many hoax emails. Cheers, Edith